Turnstile for cars.



'DE WITTC. FULTON an W. B. SMITH. TURNSTILB FOR GARS.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 30, 1908.

Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

' :DE WITT C. FULTON,

Vments forming independent i5 b f o 'a passenger within the car a regaster will i. the car.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

or NEW MARKET, AND WILLIAM JERSEY.

B. SMITH, 'EcLpWELL, NEW

lTUm\isTI1:.E Fon cans.

936,112. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 5,

1909. Applicationaied october so, isos. serialNo. 460,293. f

To all whom it le it known that we, WITT C. FULTON and WILLiAM SMITH, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at New may concern: closed top 2 and an open bottom, as clearly seen in `ig. 1 of the drawing. The said top 2 hasformed therein a slot 3 which is somewhat elongated and which preferably 5 Market and Caldwell, in the county of Midextends' in parallel relation to the partition dlesex and State of `New Jersey, have inl. A rocking element 4 is' pivoted to'the vented new and useful Improvements in `partition E as shown at 5 `and is located Turnstiles for Cars, of which the following upon the interior of the car. The said rockisa speciication. ing element is provided with a depending l0 This invention relates to turnstile regisportion 6, and an upwardly extending porters for street railway-cars, and has for an object to provide a turnstilecomprising a plurality of-revoluble radially extending elepassenger spaces so that in movement tion 7.' It will be seen that the said depending portion thus extends with in the hollow cylindrical element 1 for a purpose to be hereinafter more fully described.

-A tu-rnstile is shown at 8 and comprises a plurality of radial elements or panels 9. The said panels are recessed at their up er ends as indicated at 10 to receive a flat cy indrical disk 1l disposed directly beneath the open bottom of the hollow element l. The said disk A11 is provided with a plurality of upstanding wings 12 disposed between the elements or panels 9 formin the turnstile, and asclearly shown the said wings extend into the hollow element l and are disposed in such manner that the -dependingfportion of the element 4 lies directly in their path of movement. centrally located hub 13 from which extends a vertical s tud 14 journaled in the par- A't the lower end the tu'instile is provided with a depending-stud 15 mounted the car. The element 4 has formed in the portion 7 thereof an elongated slot 16 which adjustably or similar Velement 17 to which is secured a spring 18 for normally holding the arni in an operative position. The said element 4 is adapted for swinging movement in the direction of the arrow indicated in Fig. 3 and its movementin the opposite direction is limited or prevented by reason of the fact etween said elements,

A furtlierpbject of this invention is to provide a car with a turnstile of the charactei' set forth above, and to provide means for holding the turnstile normally against rotation.-

Other objects and advantages will be'apparent as the nature of the invention is better set forth, and it will b e understood that changes within the scope ofthe claims may be resorted to without departing from th'e spirit of the invention.

I n the drawing, forming a portion of.tliis specification andin which like characters of reference indicate similar parts in the several views-z-Figure 1 is a central lon itudinal section taken through a street rai way carfshowing the application of the present tui'i'istile thereto. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line 2`2 of Fig. l. Fig. is a vertical transverse section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrow.

Referring now more particularly to Vthe drawing, there is shown a cai' A of the pasthat the depending portion of the said eleseiigei-type provided witha reai' platform nient engages one end wall of the slot 3 B havinga rear guard rail C and a side guard rail D A rear wall E is provi-ded which is disposed in proper spaced relation to the rail C and which has formed therein an exit doorway F, and an inlet doorway G. QThe doorway F is preferably closed by a hinged door H as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing.

' The partition E, directly above the doorway G is provided with a horizontally disposed hollow cylindrical element 1- having a formed in the top 2 of the element 1. The spring 18 is preferably located within a register casing 19 which may be` provided with any suitable registering mechanism to be operated by the pull rod or element 17 at each complete quarter revolution of the turnstile.

Upon the platform B of the car is located a transverse rail 20 disposed in spaced relation to the partition'E and tween the said partition and the rail receives a pull rod.

20 respectively mayv The turnstile disk 11 carries a stand the conductor or operator of the car. The rail also serves to form an inlet passage 21 for passengers, and a discharge passage 22, the latter communicating with the doorway F. To effectively prevent rotation of the turnstile without the ,knowledge of the conductor, I provide upon'fthebottom of the car a horizontally disposed rocking shaft 23 which is preferably mounted in brackets 24 and 25, as shown, and at one end the said shaft is provided w-ith an arm 26 adapted to extend upwardly in thepath of movement 4of the elements or panels'9 forming the tui-rrstile, and at the other end the said shaft is provided with a foot-controlled lever 27 engaged normally with a stop 2S upon the bracket 25 so that ythe said lever remains ordinarily in a horizontal position. To effectively and normally hold the lever and the arm just described in 'such position provide a helicalspring which is preferably wrapped around the vshaft 23 and has one end secured to. the arm 26, and its other end connected 1n a suitable manner to the bracket 25. y

A railing of suitable form is shown at 29 upon the interior of the car and its purpose vis to prevent persons or passengers from making their escape from the car by-way of the turnstile. 1

In operation, it maybe briefly described that in large cities principally conductors may stand between the rail 20 'and the partition E, and each passenger entering the car is directed between two of the panels or element-s 9 of the tprnstile, after which, the lever 27 is operated by the conductor to allow the said turnstile tobe revolved by the passenger. It is of course understood that a single passenger enters the car at a time'and that the turnstile moves` only a quarter of a revolution at each entrance of a passenger. Immediately upon the entrance of a passenger, the footl leverv is released in order that the arm 26 will assume its normal position to prevent further rota- -tion of the turnstile which might otherwise possibly Aactuate the recording or registering mechanisrmgAs stated, cach individual or passenger automatically registers his own fare and may pay it to the conductor when enterin thecar.

A 'car having an entrancepassage, a turnstile for said passage adapted to convev in.- dividual passengers to the interior o the car, a plurality of radial wings carried by the tur-nstile, a rock arm having` a portion disposed 1n the path of movement of thev wings so that the arm is actuated by said wings when the turnstile is revolved, register operating means connected with the rock arm, `a rock shaft carried by the car provided at` one end with-an arm extending upwardly normally iii the path of movement of the turnstile, a lever connected with the rock shaft, a stop for normally engaging the lever to hold the same normally -in a horizontal position so that the arm normally assumes an operative position, said car having an exit passage located adjacent to the entrancen passage, and a swinging door nor mally closing the said passage.

In testimony whereof we afix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

DE TITT C. FULTON. 'VILLLXM B. SMl'lll.

YVitncsses:

Gannon lV. Column., lV, L. Conner-1., 

